[ConorMacNessa]

Ted Williams was the real article! A great athlete, a great Marine, and a great American!

One of the things Ted had going for him both as a baseball player and a fighter pilot was his extremely acute vision. I think I read that he tested out at 20/5 on vision. I recall having heard that he stated he could detect the spin of a curve ball at no more than 5 feet from the pitcher's arm. Career batting average - .344. Batting average 1958 - at age 40 - .388. 'Nuff said!



Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[ConorMacNessa]

REST IN PEACE, FALLEN BROTHER!



Cpl. David O'Connor, Royal Marine Commando, 40 Commando, KIA Afghanistan 24Oct2012




I have fought a good fight,
I have finished my course,
I have kept the faith.
2 Timothy 4:7 (KJV)

Flowers of the Forest



Black Watch Piper

THE SOLDIER

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam;
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

Rupert Brooke



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Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[ken5050]

Williams and Rogers Hornsby are the only two players to win the Triple Crown twice..yet in both his Tripel Crown seasons, Williams was NOT voted the MVP..mainly because thew Boston sportswriters hated him.

Just goes to show that Ted was decades ahead of the times in his loathing of the MSM..

BTW..if you haven't ever read it..Ted's book, "the Science of Hitting"..is awesome...You can likely find a used copy on Amazon..